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Farmers market hopes to grow business

An organization focused on revitalizing the Branch Avenue corridor in southern Prince George’s County is hoping local farmers can help grow small businesses in addition to crops.

Branch Avenue in Bloom — a nonprofit venture funded primarily by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and administered by the Maryland Small Business Development Center at the University of Maryland, College Park — launched a farmers market Friday in the parking lot of Iverson Mall in Temple Hills. The materials needed for the volunteer-run market is funded by a $5,000 grant from the Prince George’s County Council.

The program came about as a result of a concept developed in the Branch Avenue Corridor Sector Plan that was approved in 2009, said Clara Fenwick, a planning coordinator for the commission. It is based on the Maryland Main Street Program, which focuses on revitalizing historic Main Street districts that officials say is a “proven” model for renewal projects.

Organizers said the market is part of Branch Avenue in Bloom’s overall effort to rejuvenate the Branch Avenue corridor, from the Naylor Road Metro station through Temple Hills, by stabilizing existing businesses in strip malls and shopping centers along the avenue as well as attract new ones, particularly near the Branch Avenue Metro station. The closest farmers market in southern Prince George’s is the American Market at National Harbor.

The program was launched in June 2010 as a two-year pilot program, although commission officials and the small business development center have expressed interest in continuing the project, said Jennifer Funn, the group’s program coordinator.

Branch Avenue in Bloom has a storefront in the Sam’s Plaza strip mall on Branch Avenue. The storefront — donated by Sam’s Car Wash, which owns and operates on the property — is where experts from the small business development center offers counseling for small business owners, monthly “merchant meetings” and problem-solving sessions in which counselors offer possible solutions to concerns that business owners raise,  Funn said.

The park and planning commission is funding the first two years of the program at about $340,000, which pays for the operation of the storefront and two employees. Branch Avenue in Bloom also works with about 30 volunteers.

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